July 02, 2009

How to get a Laptop Battery at 30,000 feet

I boarded a plane today thinking that my MacBook Pro battery was fully charged.Much to my chagrin when I turned on the machine it said it had 10 minutes left.This is the third Mac battery I have had for this machine.They suck.Green my ass. They don’t hold the charge they are supposed to for anywhere near as long as they should.Anyway I digress

I had so much in my head.I needed to get it down.I needed to work.I needed battery life.There were no outlets so. I asked the flight attendant to make an announcement that I would rent someone’s macbook pro battery for the 2 hour flight for $20.She made the announcement and asked people to ring their flight attendant button I they were interested. Within 10 seconds of her announcement I heard three dings.Three different people were anxious to rent me their battery.

The flight attendant handled who the winner was.I considered just for a second then offering the deal to the lowest bidder, anyone willing to rent it for $15 J but was just happy to get a fully juiced battery.

I am writing this on the plane using the rented battery.Just got a solid amount of work done for 90 minutes and it cost me 20 bucks.All in all a great deal for everyone

Should there be hyper local ebay, planebay, for such things? Rent a movie you have someone else wants to see.Rent an ipod full of music.Rent someone’s headphones…wacky but….